Wow. You are very lucky. My current job would be the best ever except my supervisor makes my life a living hell. :(

I have been here so long that it is hard to leave my friend.

Just by realizing this and making this comment honestly says a lot about you. A lot of good, that is. I’m rooting for you, OP, and I hope you eventually find a healthy relationship. :)

Idk…they were still doing this shit plenty pre-pandemic. Disney is notorious for it and it has bothered me to no end. I refuse to watch any of their continual releases of abominations of older great films.

My insurance (US) doesn’t have any mental health coverage and I am not under Medicaid/Medicare/Obamacare. Seems to be common enough. I have an HSA bank account, but it gets rapidly depleted from something like that.

For me? The fact that life always changes.

A lot of times, I really really hate change. When I have a good thing going, the possibility of change makes me really anxious and sometimes depressed.

But when I’m in a bad spot? It’s really really fucking hard, but I know eventually it will change. Will it change for the better or change for the worse? You can’t know, but there’s at least a chance that your situation will change some day, and there is a chance it will get better. It has got me going through some really very incredibly dark times where I really wanted to end my life. I still struggle with that now and then, but it’s always good to have the thought of chance in the back of your mind.

Sorry to get too political, but take Trump for example. It’s horrifying and depressing watching him and his rabid cult.

But…I just love the memes it can generate.

Maybe shitty of me to say/think, but you have to find humor somewhere in life. Make sour candy out of your lemons when you can’t make lemonade.

Just got my first cat last month. Never even had experience with cats.m beforehand really. But I agree now. :)

Idk where the user above is, but mental health is just so fucking expensive in the US. I have a good job, but it’s hard for me to stomach a $150 bill for each appointment (average price I’ve found). I’ve started and stopped quickly after so many times because it’s really hard for me to rationalize draining my HSA account for something that might never end up benefiting me.

Well…while I said there is nothing wrong with my hormones, I do have quite a bit of excess facial and body hair in a male pattern. So I think I likely have higher than normal testosterone in addition to the normal female hormones causing everything beyond the hair to be “regular”. So I don’t know that that’s the issue either.

You know I have on occasion thought of something like that. Thing is I don’t have any sexual trauma or anything like that. So idk.

I definitely started having mental health issues around puberty…but I mean it’s common enough for most pre/teens to experience mental turmoil during that time. So you’d think it wouldn’t preclude developing sexually.

I’m just beginning therapy now for some unrelated, more severe issues, but maybe I will eventually bring that up if I can sort out the more pressing things first.

sex is not in some special category of “required in order to be human”

Thanks for this. It’s just such an innate biological urge in 99% of people that not experiencing it actually has often made me feel like I’m not a human. It’s as basic as getting hungry when you need food or being thirsty when you need water. Idk. I appreciate the words is all, as feeling “not human” has been such a nearly lifelong struggle with this.

I will say though…when people talk about how amazing “mangoes” are, it does make me feel a bit left out even regardless of the “being human” aspect. The way people describe orgasms…it’s like they have access to some form of heroin and I don’t lol. I have a bit of FOMO wanting to be able to have an experience with such extreme pleasure.

Hoping you don’t take the downvotes to heart. Excuse my french, but you’re a bit of a weirdo and I’m sure you know this. I’m a weirdo in different ways so I get it lol!!

Anyway, I’m really happy for you that you managed to find a partner so well suited for you. A compatibility scenario like yours in an already niche group of people sounds more like finding a needle in a haystack to me. While I get that technically there is probably some individual on the planet that is compatible with me due to my niche sexual/romantic needs, it is statistically unlikely and incredibly difficult to ever hope to find someone like that.

I am female! I hope my testosterone isn’t too high lol. I have always had incredibly regular periods as well so I doubt there is any sort of issue with that going on.

I am fully aware. But notice I said that the issue for me has been lifelong. During and after pubertal age, I never developed in that manner. I have been taking an SSRI for only the past few months. That leaves 15+ years prior to taking an SSRI or any sort of medications whatsoever where I had no libido. In my case, it was not caused by any medication. It was lifelong.

I’m a decade younger, but I’m sure I’ll still be a virgin at 40 and beyond.

I have had a lifelong lack of libido (so it has not been caused by any sort of medications or anything). I also have the inability to feel sexual pleasure. I have tried all different kinds of ways of masturbating and none of them have felt like anything. May as well just be touching my forearm. Puberty was confusing as fuck as I couldn’t relate to any of my peers in this way. So I’ve always felt pretty broken.

I don’t really like other people touching me, especially strangers. I have tried kissing a couple of times before and I didn’t understand how I was supposed to do it like physically…how you’re supposed to move your mouth/facial muscles or whatever. It just tasted like spit and was wet and wasn’t pleasant.

Mostly I’m fine with it, but sometimes I get a bit sad that I’ll never be able to have a deep lifelong, human connection with someone, raise kids, etc.

I get that I can try to find connections within the asexual community, but it’s incredibly small and hard to find someone in my same age in my same geographical area.

Oh also I have intense social anxiety which doesn’t help.

Lmao I was driving about 16 hours solo to get back to Michigan. Legitimately immediately after crossing the Ohio to Michigan border, the road contrast was so incredibly stark lol. Immediate potholes everywhere.

Why is no one asking why you also just block random people for no discernible reason? I don’t know how to check my block list, but I don’t think I have anyone blocked (but maybe there is one or two). I have a shitton of instances blocked because I don’t want to see porn in my feed though. I have no qualms with users of porn commuties or letting them do what they want, but that isn’t what I’m interested in or want to see.

I legitimately don’t carry cash anyway tbh. I absolutely hate cash.

While I do like the pop of the left one more, will it stand up to repeated washing? Or will the pattern wear away or rub off?

I’m more inclined to like a laser etched glass because the pattern doesn’t wear away.

Overall, I don’t know that I love the look of the brown container itself, though.

I’m confused. It doesn’t say you would prolong someone’s life if you fail to touch them for the duration of 15 seconds. If someone is already set to die without you touching them, why is it that you touching them would save them?